Reluctant Horse, by Taunja Thomson

Amazon, by Wassily Kandinsky (Russia). 1917.

Reluctant Horse

Amazon rider in gown
flowing and shadowed and emerald
like a rainforest river
sits astride steed
marvels at the world--
waves of midnight soil    flowers with undulating
stems    cold expanse between her
and roseate hills    raspberry sky
two-faced moon--
a world now hers too
while reluctant horse mopes
head pulling against
reins in her hand.

​Taunja Thomson

Taunja Thomson’s work has most recently appeared in These Fragile Lilacs and Alcyone.  Three of her poems have been nominated for Pushcart Awards: “Seahorse and Moon” in 2005, “I Walked Out in January” in 2016, and “Strum and Lull” in 2018.  She has co-authored Frame and Mount the Sky, a chapbook of ekphrastic poetry (2017); her chapbook Strum and Lull placed in Golden Walkman’s 2017 chapbook competition; and her chapbook The Profusion is due out in January of 2019.  She has a writer’s page at https://www.facebook.com/TaunjaThomsonWriter/.